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Published: 2008-01-18 09:02:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 766; Favourites: 14; Downloads: 30
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inflight shot as an airshow spectator might have seen it.......a Grumman F-14A Tomcat performing with the US Navy,s world famous Blue Angels precision aerobatic display team. a pair of inert/dummy Phoenix missiles could probably have been used as self-contained oil tank+smoke generator units for making colored smoke-trails for airshow performances,and the Blues could have done some totally awesome/wild manuvers and tricks with the Tomcat,s variable-geometry wings and superb low-speed manuverability. just the Show Value/Publicity/Glamour/Pride factor alone would have been cheap at twice the price!Related content
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not as many schools like it as there used to be. many closed nationwide due to lack of enrollment. TSA is still there,but it,s not quite what it used to be.
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I'd believe we have had many fail here to some used to be extremly succesful
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just not as many people going into the business as there used to be. right now,we have a market-glut of computer-geeks,{support and help-desks}it used to be a great paying field,but so many of those jobs have been outsourced recently!
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Yeah I could see that and understand it to
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something like that happened to my brother a while ago.....man,was he just foaming at the mouth! he went into computers during the early 80s,when it was still on the Left Side of Witchcraft....now,comp-techies are a Dime-A-Dozen all over the world.
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Same thing happened to my mom she was a main frame programer in COBAL now only banks use it
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my brother was with American Data Processing for a while....i think a lot of those jobs got outsourced to India!{for pennies on the dollar.}
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indeed! just hearing the "O-word" makes some people foam at the mouth!
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Yeah and it will always be in every country.
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and it has to stop somewhere,before our whole economy collapses!
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Yeah that would be nice as well
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we have to produce something,and not just be a total consumer-society.
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Yeah well tell that to the goverment and the bosses cause all they see is the bottom line
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no economy,no Bottom Line.
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Well there is its just really low
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we can blame our current administration for that,and Big Oil.
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just a conceptual model i made. the Tomcat just would have been way too expensive for use by an aerobatic team.
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oh! haha i thought it was REAL! lol
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i wish it was......the Tomcat just wouild have been too expensive for use by an aerobatic display team,even the US Navy!
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geez!
anyways. great shot! ^^
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plenty more in my gallery!
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purrrrrrrr............big gallery,might take a while.
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not as big as some others,though.
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A concept worth fantasizing about.... 
Garnet says she will attend the Grumman F-14A Tomcat Blue Angels Fantasy Airshow.
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it could have been done for real.......just needed the budget! {Big Bucks,but still....!}
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But, alas, the big bucks are spent on stupid stuff... like unwinnable wars & Strategic Defense Initiatives that will never work.
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and don,t forget about a lot of Polital Pork too,such as Bridges To Nowhere...........!
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Oh, yeah.... Pork and Bridges...
The ways to waste money are without number.
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and it,s High Time for We The People to put a stop to it,before the nation goes totally bankrupt. Revolution,anyone?
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really cool shot! I was present at a blue angles air show in Mass. way back when, It was the show that the plane flew directly into the ground. It was freaky!!And very sad!
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it does happen now and again.....just have to learn from our mistakes. way back when as in......?
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I can't remember, but I was a kid maybe 10 or so. so seeing I am 29 1/2 for 13 years that means about 32 years ago.
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i remember the Blues did have an airshow accident during the mid-1970s. that must have been the one.
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Must have been! Thanks for the info!It is nice to jog the brain once and awhile!
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where did this incident take place?
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Hummmm!! I would have to ask my mother but in Mass. Maybe Weymouth air base (now non existent) or maybe peas(I think that is how it is spelled) air base. I will find out though!
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Thankyou!They do not include spell check here. I love spell check!
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never really had to use it myself.....!
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lots of the time my fingers work faster than my brain. Oh well could be worse things I suppose.
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mine too! just can,t keep up with so much info to try and express.....!
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